Vince Avedon – 2/12/06

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Serving GOP’s money machine; Vince Avedon; Beaver County Times; February 12, 2006.

As you read this, remember Mr. Avedon once wrote that a high school student who showed interest in enlisting in the Marines as a “was probably brought up to be a two-faced traitor to his country.”

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“The job of an economic hit man is to convince strategic countries to accept enormous construction-development loans courtesy of the U.S. Treasury, and to make sure that the contracts are awarded to Halliburton (Cheney), Bechtel (George Schultz, Nixon’s Treasury Secretary) and Stone & Webster.

“Burdened with these huge debts, they become servitudes of the Republican money machine and pawns of U.S. globalization.

“Bush 41 decided to do this in Iraq just as he did with Saudi Arabia. The economic hit men went in and tried to bring Saddam around, tried to get him to agree to a deal like with the Saudis. Saddam didn’t bite. So we sent in the CIA jackals to overthrow or assassinate him. When they failed, the military machine became the collection agency.

“What easier way to bring in the military than to have the CIA (formerly headed by Bush 41) turn a blind eye to pre 9-11 intelligence and to give Bush 43 the opportunity of eight years to collect their pound of flesh?

“That explains the seven-minute lull during the ‘My Pet Goat’ story hour. Bush 43 realized at that point that it was his job to sell us on the military option.

“Iraq controls a great deal of the water in the Middle East and, of course, we can’t forget its oil. One way to protect against the loss of Saudi oil is by taking over Iraq’s oil fields.”

[RWC] War for water? <g>

“‘Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered’ - Thomas Paine.”

[RWC] Most of this letter reads like recycled Michael Moore and MoveOn.org BS. I wonder if Mr. Avedon reads this stuff somewhere or if he develops it himself? Either way, I’m glad I don’t live in Mr. Avedon’s world.